Heney eldeidge



H. ELDRIDGE. BooT 0R SHOE.

Patented Mar. l0,-1868.

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Letters .Patent No. 75,398,l 'dated March10,f1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN BooTs Ann SHOES..

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TOALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

. Be it known 'that I, HENRY ELDRID'GE, of Lynn, in 4the county of'Essex, 'and State'of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful invention having reference tothe Manufacture of Boots and Shoes; and do hereby declare the following to be afull, c leni', and exact description thereo'duerei'erence :being had to the accompanyling drawings', making partof this specification, and in `which@ l Figure 1 is'a sidee'levation, v I

' Fignre a vertical section,

Figure 3 a. horizontal sectioniof my invention.

In' the ninnni'acture..Ii.` boots and shoes, the-flasting, or material of which the body of the'boot is con posed, is 'laid upon a benchfin successive layers or thicknesses, to th'e number of eight, vor thercabouts, andthe quarters or Vamps, as'the case-maybe, cnt through the entire number ofllayers, for the sakeof expedition and economy of time. I 4 i It has been the custom herletoformin order to form these suceessivelayers, to nnroll a piece of-lqsting-containing some forty yards, and make three' or four foldsV in it, This requires tlielabor-offseveral menlfandai' vconsiderable'ernennt'of time,;and in a large establishment is mi ite-moi 'great expense. In addition to this" 'f act, 4incntting the material th'us folded, more or less of it is Wasted at eachfold, making another and serious loss,

The object'of this invention is to produce ameans of combining anumber of successive layers'of' material directly from'th'e rolls',fan'd ivithohtfolding such material or manipulating it otherwise thunto draw it from The invention consists in snspendingthe rollsof cloth or lasting on the boards*aboutwhich'they n rcwonnd,

I in' 'such'mann'erthnt they shall-be ,capable of freely revolving, andnallow the material to bedrawn fronithenr. '.lfhis conditionbeing observedQand the requisite number oil-,rolls thus suspended .being combined together to. formlth'eaggregate'amountfof layers required, the e`nd's of vsuch rolls of n1aterial are tob'elapped together, and tl'ie whole th'us joined togethencnrried to the to p` of thebench or table upon which thcynre tobe cut. V l

In the drawings abovereierred to as'constituting part o ithis speeification,-A denotes o framework of any vproper construction, having inserted'within lits opposite poStS, a. series of pivots or poirited" screws, a a a, VSick The boardsupon nhich the rolls b b 5,8m., of materialare wound, are shown at'c c c, lite., as suspnded between fthepivot's do a, which are extended into their opposite-ends atabont the centre thereof, thus yallowing them-to freely rotate 'on such"y pivots. -The ends of the rollso'f material areto be lai'dorlapp'efd upon one another,.o.s shown vinthe drawings, and thus joined, are to be carriedto and laid upon the bench, as before observed".`

As the material is eonsuniedin cutting up, the combined 4layers. are to be'l drawn along upon the bench whichwill-unroll eachA piece oi material from its board, and cause them" to advance towards thefbeneh properly lapped upon one anoth er.` y I v l Bythe employment of my invention, the labor of .unrolling and foldingeaeh piece-of materialisu's'aved. The-only waste of material, when using my invention,l is u. comparatively triiling' one 'at-each end of -the piece,. consequently,considerable expense of material is. saved.'

I claim suspending and combining the rolls of materialin the manner' described, wheroby'they may be: unwound. and lapped oneupon another, essentially as hereinA shown and specified.'

V HENRY ELDRIDGE.

Witnesses:

Enw'AnD GRIFFITH,-

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